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UPDATED with video: Season 1 of Amazon’s Hanna will hit Amazon Prime Video on March 29.
It’s is based on the 2011 assassin pic directed by Joe Wright, but goes in ” different tonal direction,” EP David Farr told TV critics at TCA, shortly after Amazon released the trailer.
“TV, in my head, is more a writers’ medium&#8221…

Legendary Entertainment said it haas partnered with Hammer Films for Quatermass, a film based on the British mid-20th-century sci-fi hero Bernard Quatermass.
David Farr, who penned the script for The Night Manager and the sci-fi pic Hanna, is adapting. Hammer's Simon Oakes (The Woman in Black, The Lodge) is producing…

Amazon Studios has given a straight-to-series order to Hanna, a drama based on Focus Features’ offbeat 2011 assassin pic, from David Farr, who co-wrote the feature, and NBCUniversal International Studios.
Emmy-nominated Farr, who most recently adapted John Le Carre’s The Night Manager for BBC/AMC, will pen the…

BBC One/Netflix co-production Troy: Fall Of A City has set its cast with Louis Hunter, Bella Dayne, David Threlfall, Frances O'Connor, Jonas Armstrong, Joseph Mawle, Tom Weston-Jones, David Gyasi, Johnny Harris and Chloe Pirrie among those strapping on sandals for the epic tale of mortals and gods. Produced by Wild…

EXCLUSIVE: David Farr, the writer behind the hit BBC/AMC show The Night Manager, is developing a TV version of offbeat assassin pic Hanna with NBCUniversal International Studios.
It's familiar territory for Farr, who co-wrote the 2011 Saoirse Ronan starrer with Seth Lochhead for Universal’s Focus Features. The film…

Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television have enlisted a host of hot UK and U.S. writing talent for their upcoming 10-part anthology Electric Dreams: The World Of Philip K Dick. Each episode of the series will act as a standalone drama, and be adapted and modernized for global audiences from Dick’s distinctive short…

Busy British actor James Norton has been cast as the lead in BBC One’s upcoming epic event series, McMafia. Inspired by Misha Glenny's bestselling book, the hard-hitting look at global crime and its far reaching influence is created by Hossein Amini (Drive) and James Watkins (The Woman In Black). Deadline previously…

BBC One is already partnered with David Farr on its star-studded upcoming AMC co-production, The Night Manager. The network is again teaming with Farr for an ambitious new drama, Troy – Fall Of A City. Produced by Humans maker Kudos for the BBC, the multi-part series will retell the fall of Troy from the perspective…

Hanna co-writer David Farr is making his feature directing debut with The Ones Below, a psychological thriller that’s just kicked off principal photography in London. Not to be confused with Legendary and Universal’s current catacombs pic As Above/So Below, The Ones Below focuses on two affluent couples living above…